Locally sourced products always look good on paper. They look especially good to the uninformed and uneducated customers which make up the bulk of restaurant patrons. There is a very short window for most of the locally sourced products. These restaurants don't tell you that they are getting produce from Chile in the winter and California most of the other time. They have tiny gardens onsite which they say produces all they need. Baloney, its just looks good, at most they are able to raise the herbs they need. As far as the fish they use its also baloney. How do you call salmon caught in Astoria, Oregon or in Youngs Bay local. And its a very short window in the spring when they get these fish. The bottom line is the restaurants all use the latest buzz words such as: organic, sustainable, local, blah blah blah. Very very little of that is used. There is no way for the consumer to find out where they really get these things because there is no law that says they have to use those ingredients in their menu 100% or even 5% of the time. I have even asked Spokane area restaurants waitstaffs what "fresh' seafood means to them? half the time they don't know what that means. Come on, and your spending your hard-earned money in these places? Not me. Have a nice day.

That is not a photo of Elizabeth Austen, as you'll see by looking here: https://elizabethausten.wordpress.com/. That is Midge Raymond, as you'll see by looking here: http://www.midgeraymond.com/bio.html

Leavenworth is our favorite place to visit. We live in Spokane, but Leavenworth feels like our home away from home.

We built a website to help other tourists like ourselves find out what is happening in Leavenworth and get our recommendations on places to stay, where to eat and what to do when you are there.
http://www.AccidentalBavarian.com

As a followup, I recalled today that the Godzilla story was a reaction to the radiation poisoning that continued for years after the atomic bombings. So, in light of the the ongoing Fukushima reactor catastrophe, this game and its description are like another stick poked in the eye for the Japanese.